>>13610545The brain is split into different regions that do different things. This is true of every race. They don't need to do high-precision mind control where they literally implant thoughts into people's heads. While it's certainly a plausible future evolution of wireless BCI tech, it's just not necessary. All that is needed is to influence mood, like wireheading from Ringworld.
If you directly stimulate the Nucleus Accumbens, you can generate in someone such a sense of satisfaction that they feel absolutely no desire for addictive substances, for instance. That's not hypothetical. It has been done, period.
>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/pleasure-shock-deep-brain-stimulation-happiness/556043/It is also possible to generate anxiety this way, by under or over-stimulation of the same region. Imagine if you could monitor what someone is watching on their television, or on YouTube, and then subtly adjust their BCI to make them feel anxiety or hatred when they see someone the Cabal dislikes speaking, and then turn up the pleasure stimulus when they see one of the Cabal's puppets.
As soon as they put this system in place, any pretense of resistance is over.
